The Great Railroad Conspiracy; The Social History of a Railroad War
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The great Indian invisible railroad disaster.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0161-391X
DOI: 10.2307/1891895